Improved curry-comb



@initrd States @met @mitra LEMUEL P. JENKS, OF BOSTON, MASSA()I-IUSE'ITS, ASSIGNOR TO H. A. HALL, OF SAME PLAGE, AND JOSEPH A. MINO'IT, AOIT' NEW YORK CITY.-

Leners 'Patent ivo. 92,454, dated July 13, 1869.

IMPROVED cURRY-COMB.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andy making part cf the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEMUEL I). J ENKs, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have inve'nted a new and improved Curry-Comb; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad vto the accompanying drawings, with letters of reference marked thereon.

.lhe nature of my invention is that of acurry-comb, with metallic teeth, the teeth being so embedded in an elastic medium, asl that they themselves, though inelastic, have an elastic action.

In the drawings- Figure l is a view in perspective, from the side or corner, of my curry-comb.

Figure 2 isa view from above, of the face ofthe same, showing the teeth.

And in th-e drawings- A A, Afigs. l and 2, are the back of the curry-comb,

V(which I prefer -to have elastic.)

B, tig. l, is the handle, which is fastened to the upper side of thedevice, as seen in fig. 1, and is ccm-v posed of rubber, or leather, or cloth, or of other flexible substance, being fastened in any convenient manner to the rcurry-comb back.

G, iig. l, is a protuberance of rounded conical shape, but longer than it is wide, which is fastened on the back of the curry-comb, underneath the middle of the handle, and its purpose and function are to lenter into the hollow of the palm of the hand, to prevent the slipping of the same.

D D D D, &c., figs. l and'2, (it has not been thought necessary to letter them all,) are teeth of metal, (copper, brass, iron, or other 1netal,) which are formed -1ike machine-made rivets, (or like carpet-tacks, with their points blunted,) being short solid cylinders, with disks attached t'o their` tops. These teeth are embedded, -at their head-ends, in the rubber which forms the body of the back of the curry-comb.

The operation of my device being similar to that of the ordinary well-known curry-combs, need ,not be further. described, other than to say that the rubber between the face of lthe curry-comb and the face or in thel rubber, the back-being one solid plate of rubber. g And sometimes I use two 4plates of rubber, or of thick rubber cloth, causing the teeth to protrude through the lower layer, and ce'menting the teethperforatedlayerto the upper or back layer. And sometimes I interspelsc, among the metallic teeth, bosses or projections of rubber, or other flexible substance, which act as teeth. And sometimes I use an elastic back, and sometimes the face only is elastic.- And sometimes I dispense with the palm-boss ,0. And I do -not claim an elastic back to a curry-comb. Nor do I claim any arrangement Where bosses of rubber, in the form of ridges and cones, projecting from theface of the curry-comb, to support metallic teeth, are used. -Nor do I claim any device where theteeth are screwed into the back of the comb; but A What I claim as of my own invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In curry-combs, the metallicteeth shown, when the same are in combination with and held by an elastic front,fand are -provided with heads, heldimmovably between the front and the back of the comb, all substantially as'dcscribed.

` LEMUEL I. JENKS.

Witnesses: i

J. M. CHURCHILL, D. C. SMrTH. 

